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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Merge API
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Software as a Service, Databases, Django Web Framework, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Processing
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-software-engineer-new-york-ny--48107cb6-779c-44f9-9557-3fe0ea822f17

## About the Role

* 7 - 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience
 * Experience with frameworks (Django, Rails, Spring, etc.)
 * Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred)

Example projects you might work on:

 * Scaling Core Systems: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our data syncing engine, lead large-scale migrations to more efficient technologies and storage solutions, and drive initiatives to increase system throughput
 * Product Innovation: Design flexible syncing paradigms that support advanced customization across model normalization, scheduling, data filtering, and API rate limit handling
 * New Revenue Streams: Partner with Product to ideate, prototype, and validate entirely new product lines or feature categories that unlock growth opportunities, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Authentication, Business-to-Business (B2B), Customer Churn, Customer Relations, Fortune 500 Customers, PostgreSQL, Product Design, Product Development, Prototyping, SQL Databases, Sales, Security Monitoring, Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Team Building, Traffic Shaping



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